From Puno, Peru we headed by bus over a section of the Andean Mountains to Tacna, Peru-to- Arica, Chile... and it was by far the most interesting bus ride yet!!! In our efforts to save a little money... we took a more local bus that stopped numerous times... dropping off and picking up locals. The most interesting pick up was the meat lady who boarded our bus and chopped away, with a giant meat cleaver some type of meat for passengers to buy (I can still hear the clunk-clunk). Fortunately... I had access to a window which kept the air flowing... in my mind cleaning out the smell. John had the audacity to say, "It sorta smells good... don´t you think?"... he was not even kidding!! On our way "over the boarder" from Tacna, Peru to
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